Update & Question - Hi everyone. I hope all had a good Thanksgiving. I was sleeved 9/30. Three weeks later I had to go to the ER for weakness and dehydration. I was unable to eat or drink. After...
Update & Question - I have been hospitalized waiting on all the testing and a chance to run up the insurance bill (lol), but bottom line is, the great minds think I have scar tissue build up and they...
Recovery sucks - Back in the hospital yesterday. I was very dehydrated and I have been throwing up almost everything I ate and eventually what I drank also. Upper GI today was weird, first bariu...
NSV - So Soon - II have been sleeved less than 1 week. I saw my surgeon yesterday and I had dropped 15 pounds since the morning of the surgery. She was amazed at the progress. Me too! However...
Sleeve Sucks - I just realized with the sleeve last Friday, I will need abdominal enhancements for playing Santa Claus this year. Just another expense I hadn't planned on.
Recent Sleeve 9/30 - My experience so far. - I had the sleeve last Friday and left the hospital Saturday afterrnoon. The day of surgery when I woke up, I was asking myself if they had in fact done the surgery? No way I coul...
Surgery Tomorrow - Finally - I have been bouncing between the RNY board and VSG board because I'm not sure which procedure I will end up with. Tommorrow I will have my surgery. I am scheduled for the RNY. M...
Censored - P.S. - I get the feeling from a couple of "OH experts" (not sure how they got certified) that getting blocked should not bother me. If I offend someone, and I take great pains not to i...
Censored - I was blocked on a thread by the thread owner yesterday. I am very disappointed the individual is so inmature to take such action. IMHO this is a public freaking forum and if you...
Almost there..... - Approval for the surgery has been submitted to Tricare for the surgery with an approximate 6 Sept. surgery date. One more clearence for surgeon, pulminary. I don't expect any pr...
Golfing for Dummies! A Reference for Men! - How to train your man for bathroom visits:
Here is an actual sign posted at a golf club:
1. BACK STRAIGHT, KNEES BENT, FEET SHOULDER WIDTH APART.
2. FORM A LOOSE GRIP....
What the doctor said? - I saw the surgeon yesterday for the first time. She is said the surgery would be 6 weeks from now, once a few test are ran. Sleep study, cardiology, and approval from PCM. She ...
What's really on men's minds. -
One day an Irishman, who had been stranded on a desert island for over 10 years, saw a speck on the horizon.
He thought to himself, "It's certainly not a ship."
As t...
Tricare - Those of you who have used Tricare for your surgery let me ask a question. I have my referral to the surgeon to evaluate and treat, but who send the request to Tricare for the AC...
Progress at last. - I have been researching WLS for sometime now.
My PCM wasn't very supportive and less than enthusiastic about getting me a refferal. His staff did not know how to put in refe...
News from Mom - Dear Son,
I’m writing this slow cause I know you can’t read fast. We don’t live where we did when you left. Your Dad read in the paper where most accide...
How the fight started!! - HOW TO START A FIGHT
One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift...
The next year, I didn't buy her a gift.
When she asked me why, I repli...
Wednesday Humor - I joined a health club last year,
spent about 250 bucks.
Haven't lost a pound.
Apparently you have to go there!
Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
I wash my mouth ...
Pyloric Valve - I ran across a thread in a DS forum talking about the loss of the pyloric valve and long term weight loss with RNY. I take it with grain of salt (because it's on a DS forum), an...
Newbie - Well today I began my journey hopefully to become half the man I am today. Few questions you veterans could help with:
1. I had a sleep study in August last year. No apnea. ...
